From: Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 21:19:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200405201920.affw6ibbe26o4hj4@ad-gentoo-main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200405195613.3skldg7hgrirjuik@matica>
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On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:56:13PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> As for rescue scenarios, that has been obsolete for a long time. For at least
> 10 years now
It is still used in some rescue situations, for example, an initramfs panic.
https://askubuntu.com/q/137655/ (This post was eight years ago but is still
applicable today. I still can't believe 2012 was almost a decade ago; it feels
like yesterday...)
> And this is a desktop. BTW, I'm curious - are there really embedded
> systems, especially ones with extreme limitations, running gentoo?
I have seen them around. There used to be this great machine by Marvell called a
"SheevaPlug", and whilst its limitations weren't _extreme_, it could certainly
be classed as "embedded" by some. Think a power-line networking device, but a
full computer ! See [1], [2], and [3].
Anyway, that came with some peculiar variant of Linux with some proprietary
stuff on, which I (along with almost every other user, I assume), replaced with
a bare Gentoo installation. There was a moderately-sized mailing list a few
years ago which was dedicated to Gentoo on the Sheeva, although I think the
domain, and thus archives, have been lost to history.
> virtuals are another area which I need to study, sigh
They're not very intuitive, but just one of those things that you learn about
naturally while casually using Gentoo over a number of years.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/Boards/Marvell_Sheevaplug
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20140717151031/https://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-05 17:53 [gentoo-user] Why busybox? Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-05 18:45 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 19:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-05 20:19 ` Ashley Dixon [this message]
2020-04-05 21:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 8:52 ` Adam Carter
2020-04-05 20:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2020-04-05 20:18 ` Dale
2020-04-05 20:20 ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-05 20:57 ` Jack
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